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35 posts from March 2022
Firmus Supercloud sets a new standard for sustainable cloud computing with Canonical’s open infrastructure
By Canonical, 28 March 2022
March 29th, 2022—Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Firmus, the Australian cloud infrastructure provider that is revolutionising data centre...
The journey from mir-kiosk to Ubuntu Frame
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 28 March 2022
We now deliver Ubuntu Frame, a display server for embedded devices that makes it easy for developers to deploy their graphics applications on Linux. Ubuntu...
The Evolution of the Smart Home: Current Trends [Part 2]
By Nathan Hart, 25 March 2022
In part one of this series, we covered how far we’ve come from the earliest smart homes, including older technologies and standards, and smart home ideas that...
Inclusive Language and its Future at Canonical
By Monica R Ayhens-Madon, 25 March 2022
Changing our language If you follow Canonical’s code and documentation, you may have noticed that we’re slowly changing some common computing terms. You might...
Design and Web team summary – 25 March 2022
By Peter Mahnke, 25 March 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...
The Evolution of the Smart Home: How it Started [Part 1]
By Nathan Hart, 24 March 2022
A brief history Smart home technology has long been the subject for futurists predicting robot butlers and the like. While we may not have “The Jetsons” style...
Design and Web team summary – 25 February 2022
By Peter Mahnke, 22 March 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...
GDC 2022: Cloud gaming powered by Anbox Cloud
By Simon Fels, 21 March 2022
At GDC 2022 Arm, Ampere Computing and Canonical will present a live talk accompanied by a cloud gaming demo built on top of Ampere Altra powered servers...
How we implemented an interactive Live Demo Box
By bethcollins, 17 March 2022
The Vanilla squad recently spent a two week sprint prototyping an interactive live demo box. We were tasked with coming up with a proof of concept, to enable...
KDE snaps performance revving up
By Igor Ljubuncic, 17 March 2022
Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed,...
A new look for the Circle of Friends
By Canonical, 16 March 2022
The Circle of Friends is getting an update! Discover the new Ubuntu logo and the journey behind it.
Cloud Adjacent Storage
By Philip Williams, 16 March 2022
What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud...